The Officers' Club Author:Ralph Peters Spring, 1981.� Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger.� The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s?A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier? a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-off vet who seems to have no future?� dueling drug gangs along the Mexican border? and the mutilated remain... more »s of a female lieutenant.� Stunning, promiscuous, and brilliant at spotting the weaknesses in others, Jessie Lamoureaux may have been killed by a jealous lover, a drug smuggler?or a ghost from a life she hoped she had left behind.� Was her murderer the Green Beret she betrayed?� The captain whose marriage she shattered?� The senior officer hoping to save her from herself?� A female sergeant fighting for dignity in a man?s world?� Or a fellow lieutenant with a secret of his own?In this gritty tale of young men and women torn between the laws of the land and the laws of the heart, a dark journey leads from a moonlit beach in Mexico to mayhem in Iran?then back to a country looking for its soul.The Officers? Club captures the passions and confusion of the times, the reckoning due after a decade of indulgence?and the commitment of those who stayed in uniform through the bad years.As the military and society struggle to right themselves, their conflicts are embodied in the question:�� Who killed Lieutenant Jessie Lamoureux?�« less